Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Over the weekend, many a city dweller who stayed in town for the election took advantage of the sunny weather and left for his country home (la petite maison de campagne). There are now more than 2,000,000 people with second homes, and they pack France's narrow country roads with their Peugeot 404s and R.16s. Many others take off to visit relatives in the provinces, for France is a nation that is pulling its young out of the country and into the cities. More than 350,000 Bretons, mostly young, have migrated to Paris, and in their...
FIFTY years after the Bolshevik revolution, the Russians finally achieved the two-day weekend. With it, they raised a problem long ago solved by Americans: what to do with the extra day. Naturally the Soviets seek a Marxist-Leninist solution. "We have nothing against your supermarkets and all your material facilities for leisure time," says Sergei Vishnevsky, a Pravda editor with long experience in the U.S. "But they have to be combined with high standards of culture, which your middle classes do not have. Material facilities are dead without the supreme blessing of culture...
...popular Seventh Heaven, a new yet already shabby revolving restaurant 700 ft. up the 1,600-ft.-high Moscow television tower. The Bolshoi Theater is sold out weeks in advance, and outside the Moscow Circus people queue up in hopes of last-minute cancellations. No wonder the two-day weekend touched off a round of heavy drinking that alarmed officials and brought out the preacher in newspaper editors...
...most welcome new diversion brought by the five-day week is the country weekend. Ten years ago, Muscovites could not understand why Stockholm and other Western capitals emptied out every weekend. Now everyone who can gets out of town, going to dachas in the neighboring countryside or to hastily winterized summer camps for a cheap weekend of cross-country skiing. The two-day weekend also means more time for old-fashioned hobbies such as stamp collecting and chess. Televised soccer and hockey games are popular, and a few privileged children have even taken up gocart racing. Winter and summer, Muscovites...
...meeting was strictly a private meeting of two SEADAG discussion groups with attendance by invitation only. It was held concurrently with but was not a part of the meetings of the Association of Asian Studies that Weekend...